Helping you to prepare for the IBM z13 server! This workflow contains interactive steps for migration considerations, restrictions, and actions to take before you order your server, along with a checklist of items that will be discontinued on future servers. The workflow contains the same valuable information as the z/OS V2.1 Migration book, in the topic "Migration to an IBM z13 server."

Introducing another advancement in z/OS migration assistance! z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) V2.1 contains an infrastructure called Workflow. The migration of z/OS V2.1 has exploited this infrastructure. Using the simplest form of this infrastructure, the z/OS V2.1 Migration book has been moved into a z/OSMF z/OS V2R1 Migration Workflow.

Use the SMF analysis tool to determine whether BatchPipes is right for you. Run this tool on your system's SMF data to produce a report of the estimated time savings you can achieve with BatchPipes. The tool reads SMF record types 14, 15 and 30 (subtypes 1,4 and 5) from your SMF data.

Use the FLASHDA SAS®-based tool to manage your transition to Solid State Drives (SSD); the tool provides DASD and data set usage reports using SAS code to analyze SMF 42 subtype 6 and SMF 74 subtype 5 records to help you identify volumes and datasets that are good candidates to reside on SSD.

The IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS Client V1.2 is composed of two parts:

The IBM Java Client enables you to control encryption and decryption of data on platforms other than z/OS or on z/OS systems that do not use the Encryption Services Feature of the IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS V1.1 product. In that way, you can exchange encrypted data between z/OS and non-z/OS platforms when the encrypted data is created through the Encryption Services Feature.

The IBM Decryption Client for z/OS allows you to decrypt data that has been created through the Encryption Services Feature. The Decryption Client is installed on z/OS platforms.

Using the Encryption Services feature of the IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS product to encrypt an MVS dataset and store it in a tape data set.

Using IEBGENER and the IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS Client - Java Client to decrypt the data and store it in an MVS dataset. A sample Unix System Services script used by this sample job is also provided. Both samples reflect the use of passwords.

IBM Health Checker for z/OS and Sysplex V3.01 (October 2003)

This tool is still available but no updates are planned for z/OS V1.10. Beginning with z/OS V1.10, new migration checks use the IBM Health Checker for z/OS (which is an integral part of the z/OS product). More migration checks are planned over time.

Though the IBM Migration Checker for z/OS tool is planned to be withdrawn at some point, you can still use this tool in addition to the new migration checks. If you use the tool, read the installation documentation for the tool and use it with the z/OS V1R10 Migration manual. You can run the tool as often as you like: on your current z/OS system, after installing z/OS V1.10, and after deploying each z/OS V1.10 image into your enterprise. The tool checks the level of the system on which it is running but does not make any changes to the system. The tool can:

Alert you to migration actions that you should plan for in the future

Detect some migration actions that you can do now to ease your migration to z/OS V1.10 (or to z/OS V1.8 or z/OS V1.9)

IBMRRAP adds RACF authorization to the WebSphere container for J2EE applications. IBMRRAP is designed to enable non-z/OS Websphere servers to use RACF services on z/OS to provide authorization and audit capabilities, allowing for centralization of authorization and audit functions to z/OS.

The ICTX Java API is the primary interface for working with the z/OS Identity Cache. The z/OS Identity Cache can be used by applications to communicate user authentication information across security domain boundaries. An application running on a z/OS or non-z/OS system can use the ICTX Java API to store identity context information in the Identity Cache on the local, or on a remote, z/OS system. The ICTX Java API provides two logical sets of services ?- one for specifying and parsing authentication information, and one for storing that information in, and retrieving it from, the z/OS Identity Cache. These two logical sets of services are provided in three packages which are documented in the ICTX Java API Javadoc.

z/OS Generic Tracker exclusion list

z/OS V2.1 (11/13/2014), replacing the version previously shipped on the system as SYS1.IBM.GTZPRM00

z/OS DFSMSrmm Conversion Support

Beginning with z/OS release V2R1, the conversion tools for DFSMSrmm are no longer supported by IBM and all related materials are removed from SYS1.SAMPLIB and SYS1.LINKLIB. All conversion programs and samples are still available to clients who intend to migrate to DFSMSrmm through the IBM Software Migration Project Office (SMPO). For more information, see Tivoli Migration Team.

Depending on your current software release levels, these samples, provided as-is, are completely functional. If your software release level is incompatible with the as-is samples, you may modify them for your own use or engage the services of the SMPO. You can contract the SMPO to provide sample updates as well as full DFSMSrmm migration services. For a list of appropriate contacts, see the "Storage Management" section of Contact us for information on z/OS Systems Management Migrations.

z/OS DFSMSrmm Customization Wizard

This wizard is designed to help you set up DFSMSrmm by selecting a standard setup that uses DFSMSrmm default values or a customized setup that you tailor for your installation. It builds the EDGRMMxx parmlib member, provides JCL jobs to setup RACF for DFSMSrmm, and jobs to allocate and initialize the datasets needed by DFSMSrmm. Editions of this wizard are available for:

A rich set of free tools packages for z/OS UNIX System Services developers.

SMP/E installable z/OS Web deliverables

The following z/OS downloads are considered Web deliverables and are SMP/E-installable.

Why are there z/OS Web deliverables? Stated simply, because we want you to be able to select new non-priced functions for your z/OS or OS/390 releases (releases for which Web deliverables are offered may or may not be currently orderable). Since we can't offer new features to products that aren't currently marketed, we're using the Internet to provide you with these functions (More).

This download of IBM® z/OS® XL C/C++ compiler provides support for the new IBM z13 servers, with ARCH(11) and TUNE(11) parameters designed to take advantage of the new instructions to better optimize your generated code. It also supports the single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions provided with the z13 vector extension facility and corresponding vector programming language extensions, and the IBM MASS (Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem) and ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) libraries. The MASS library is intended for accelerated execution of elementary mathematical functions that serves as a higher performance alternative to the standard math library that is part of the z/OS XL C/C++ Runtime. The ATLAS library is designed to provide linear algebra function support for BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) and LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage) functions routinely used in Business Analytics and Optimization solutions. These two libraries provide a powerful framework for development of new Business Analytics workloads, porting math-intensive workloads from other platforms, and accelerating Business Analytics workloads on z13.

Additionally, this download delivers a number of usability and performance enhancements:

Inline assembler statements support is designed to allow you to insert assembler statements inlined with XL C and XL C++ code. This support is designed to not require Metal C compilation and to allow you to easily use specialized instructions with your C and C ++ objects.

Runtime architecture blocks support is designed to allow you to use a single source file with sections designed to take advantage of various hardware architecture levels and select the appropriate path to be run at execution time. This function is designed to allow a single executable to have optimized paths for various hardware levels to help deliver improved performance.

The RSM Enablement Offering web deliverable is designed to help improve system availability and responsiveness by using Flash Express across transitional workload events such as market openings and diagnostic data collection.

With RSM Enablement Offering and Flash Express, z/OS is also designed to help improve processor performance by supporting middleware such as IMS™, with its exploitation of pageable large (1 MB) pages

Additional follow-on support is now available with APARs OA40967 and OA40968.

OA40967 provides support for 2GB pages via enhancements to the IARV64 service

OA40968 provides support to configure SCM increments off-line via a z/OS operator command, and allows the PLPA and COMMON paging data sets to be optional.

This download provides support for new encryption functions in IBM z Systems z13 planned to be available March 2015.

This includes new IBM z13 support for CryptoExpress5S (CEX5) cryptographic coprocessor exploitation and support for sharing cryptographic coprocessors across a maximum of 85 domains. This download also includes support for new VISA Format Preserving Encryption (VFPE) services. Support for DK AES PIN and AES MAC Generate and Verify Services are also included in this download. Support for exploitation of counter mode (CTR) for AES-based encryption on z196 and later processors is included as well. An enhancement to the existing PKA Key Translate service for supporting additional translation formats without the need to use a User Defined Exit (UDX) has been incorporated. Enhanced random number generation exploiting CPACF Deterministic Random Number Generate (DRNG) instruction is provided in this download along with the ability to disable the RNG Cache. This download also introduces new services and support for key archiving and key material validity which allow for querying reference date information for key tokens and key objects in a key data store (KDS); to mark records in a KDS as ‘archived’, rendering them ineligible for use; to retrieve labels from a KDS that satisfy certain search criteria; to mark records in a KDS with start and end dates; and finally to provide methods to manage metadata and start/end dates. A new enhancement to the ICSF Multi-Purpose service, CSFMPS, to identify key records, in advance, that would cause a change master key operation to fail is also included in this download.

This download provides support for new encryption functions in the enhanced IBM zEnterprise EC12 and IBM zEnterprise BC12 available September, 2013.

This includes support for enhancements to Enterprise Security PKCS #11 Hardware Security Module (HSM) including more secure key algorithms. This download also includes enhancements to existing services in support of emerging EMV standards, enhanced Remote Key Export support, AES MAC enhancements to the Symmetric MAC Generate and Symmetric MAC Verify services, and new callable services Recover PIN From Offset, Symmetric Key Export with Data, and Authentication Parameter Generate. Additional support in the download includes improved cryptographic processor configuration, improved performance for applications calling the One Way Hash and Random Number Generate services, improved serviceability via enhanced component tracing, the ability to maintain a "last referenced" date for key material stored in a Key Data Store, and a new service, CSFIQF2, which retrieves status information currently known to ICSF without requiring SAF authorization or calling any cryptographic processors.

This download provides support for new encryption functions in the IBM zEnterprise EC12 and the new Crypto Express4S card.

This includes support for Enterprise Security PKCS #11 Hardware Security Module (HSM) support for Crypto Express 4S, DUKPT for MAC and Data Encryption, Wrapping keys with strong keys, a new cipher text translate CCA verb, improved I/O performance for the public key data set (PKDS) and PKCS #11 token key data set (TKDS), providing a random number cache to help improve performance for applications that use random number generation functions, a new Health Check, and FIPS on Demand.

This download provides support for the IBM OMEGAMON z/OS Management Console, an availability management solution for z/OS. It helps you monitor and react to availability issues on z/OS and Sysplex systems, as well as providing health check information collected by the IBM Health Checker for z/OS. This support includes z/OS and workstation components.

IBM zIIP Support for z/OS V1R6-V1R7 and z/OS.e V1R6-V1R7 provides the z/OS and z/OS.e support for the IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processor and IBM System z10 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). The IBM zIIP support directs eligible workloads to those servers which have one or more zIIPs.

This download provides System REXX Support for z/OS V1.8 and z/OS.e V1.8. The System REXX function makes it possible to execute REXX routines outside of the conventional TSO/E and Batch environments. REXX has long been considered one of the fastest development languages for system exit and utilities work on z/OS. The possibilities for exploiting REXX code through the use of System REXX are vast, from providing operator assists to providing an easy way to process files and strings.

Beginning with z/OS V1R6, Text Search is no longer available as an element of z/OS or z/OS.e. However, if you require the use of the DB2 UDB Text Extender feature of DB2 Universal Database for z/OS V7 (program number 5675-DB2) or DB2 Universal Database for z/OS V8 (program number 5625-DB2), you can download this Web deliverable to get Text Search.

Text Search is required and licensed for use only with the DB2 UDB Text Extender feature for the following supported operating system releases:

This download provides ICSF encryption/decryption support for both secure keys and clear keys using the CP Assist for Cryptographic Functions (CPACF), PCICA and the PCIXCC adapters for selected releases.

Related documentation is available from the Technical Sales Library and will be updated on an on-going basis. We recommend that you use search criteria of "crypto" to identify the most current documentation.